... hda1, hda2, and hda3 are all physical volumes We'll initialize hda3 as a physical volume: root@lappy:~# pvcreate /dev/hda3 If you wanted to combine several disks, or partitions you could the same ... that we have a volume group (called skx-vol) we can actually start using it Working with logical volumes What we really want to is create logical volumes which we can mount and actually use In ... have a lot of space handy for allocating to LVM then it might make sense to reinstall your system The Debian installer has excellent support for creating LVM setups We've not really covered advanced...